CFP: World Wide Eliot (11/30/04; collection)

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EDaumer_at_aol.com

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EDaumer@aol.com

CFP: World Wide Eliot (11/30/04)

Submissions are sought for a collection of essays on T. S. Eliot's=20international reception. The collection will explore how Eliot's writings and persona=20have entered the literary and cultural life of countries other than England=20and=20the United States where his reception has already been well documented. =20Submissions might address the different ways in which readers, critics, and=20writers from other cultural contexts have responded to Eliot's words, ideas, and=20politics--whether by assimilating, interrogating, subverting or rejecting them. =20Of particular interest is the encounter, within postcolonial, even colonial=20spaces, between indigenous voices and Eliot as a canonical English writer. =20Other submissions might focus on the matter of modernist poetics in respective=20world traditions as they are manifested in, or translated through, responses to=20T. S. Eliot. In addition to scholarly pieces, we also welcome more personal=20essays reflecting upon an individual's engagement with the words and ideas of=20Eliot and the particular social setting in which it took place.

Please send abstracts of about 2 pages by November 30, 2004 to both Shyamal=20Bagchee at shyamal.bagchee_at_ualberta.ca and Elisabeth D=E4umer at=20edaumer_at_emich.edu. =20